This afternoon I had my hair trimmed. In the car driving to the salon, I flipped on the radio and tuned in to ALICE 104.5. Here Comes the Sun was playing. It seemed to go on forever and so I changed stations, listened to a couple songs and then flipped ALICE back on. Here Comes the Sun was still playing. Intrigued, I listened. After about 10 minutes I could hear where the loop started. When I came back from having my haircut, it was still playing- over and over. It played as I drove home. (In the sky there were two parachutists!) A few hours later I drove to the drugstore– Here Comes the Sun continued to loop. WHY??? Are they going off the air? Is it a salute to something? When I first realized the song was playing for far too long, I wondered if maybe I was going crazy and I was reminded of the movie Orphée. In this movie, Orpheus is obsessed with Death (a woman) and a radio station that he listens to in her car. The radio transmits very cryptic poems and Orpheus transcribes them into his notebook. He is transfixed and ignores everything else. Of course, I am not still in the car listening to Here Comes the Sun… yet, in a weird way, I can’t help but feel hopeful. I want it to be a sign of good things to come.
